Re: ocaml 3.10.0 packages news
On 14-06-2007, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> I worked another bit on 3.10.0 packages, the main changes can be
> summarized as follows:
> - re-enabled building of the ocaml-source package (but with a new
> methods, which is hopefully more maintainable in the future)
> - ported patches to the stable 3.10.0 tarball
>
> An upload of ocaml 3.10.0-1 to experimental has been done yesterday.
>
> Open issues (i.e. request for comments from other debian camlers):
>
> - the ocaml-nox .deb is now about 30 Mb and installs something like 9 Mb
> of camlp4 related executables (sizes on i386 arch). Shall we split out
> an ocaml-camlp4-extras with the various kind of camlp4 executables?
>
OK
> - the ocaml-source package now contains ocaml sources *after* debian
> specific patches have been applied. Is that what we want? (My answer
> is yes, but one can argue that a vanilla source tarball is desirable)
>
Better than before.
> - ocamlbuild is installed upstream as ocamlbuild.byte /
> ocamlbuild.native / ocamlbuild (the latter being a *copy* of the best
> executable among the former two). This breaks the convention of foo /
> foo.opt of other legacy ocaml tools. I thus renamed ocamlbuild so that
> the plain version is bytecode (and is in ocaml-nox) and so that
> ocamlbuild.opt is the optimized version (and is in
> ocaml-native-compilers). Do you like my choice?
>
Yes.
> - assuming the experimental packages are fine (please test them no
> matter the open issues above!) are we ready to upload to unstable? (Of
> course pending an approval of the RMs)
>
Will test it next week
> Many thanks for your feedback,
> Cheers.
I see that you shipped more "internal" lib using a directory structure.
Many thanks for this -- i hope it will enable me to build cameleon
tools.
See you soon
Sylvain Le Gall
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